This is an administration that has been mostly free of scandal over the last six years and now they have the taint that they cannot erase. It has damaged this White House, and I think it's damaged the Republican prospects for 2008 in taking the White House and keeping it.-David Gergen, adviser to Presidents Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton, discussing the fallout of the Scooter Libby trial yesterday on CNN.
Scandal free? I've always admired Gergen, but what planet has he been on the last six years?